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Engineers at Toyota Motor Corp. say they have tamed volatile lithium-ion battery technology, and can now safely pack more power at no significant extra cost, giving the automaker the option to enter the growing all-electric car market. While rivals including Tesla Motors and Nissan ...

Japan is turning to a small German company to generate power from timber irradiated by the 2011 Fukushima No. 1 nuclear meltdowns. Closely held Entrade Energiesysteme AG will sell electricity from 400 of its container-size biomass-to-power machines set up in Fukushima Prefecture, said Julien ...

Nissan Motor Co.’s decision to keep investing in Britain came after the carmaker told the government it might shut down manufacturing in the country once it leaves the European Union, according to a person familiar with the private discussions. The automaker announced Thursday it ...

Mitsubishi Motors Corp. on Friday reported its first quarterly operating loss in nearly six years as the automaker struggles to recover from a slump in domestic sales after admitting to overstating the mileage of its vehicles. Japan’s sixth-largest car maker by sales posted a ...

Hitachi Ltd. President Toshiaki Higashihara said Thursday the company needs to consider joining forces with other players to get its poorly performing nuclear reactor business revived. Hitachi cannot leave its nuclear business floundering, Higashihara told a press conference in Tokyo. “Something like a tie-up ...

Twitter announced plans Thursday to cut 9 percent of its workforce as the struggling social network reaffirmed its strategy to drive growth after failing to find a buyer. “We see a significant opportunity to increase growth as we continue to improve the core service,” ...

Carmaker Nissan will build its new Qashqai model at Britain’s biggest car plant in Sunderland, a company source said Thursday, in a major boost to Prime Minister Theresa May just months after voters backed Brexit. Chief Executive Carlos Ghosn said in September that he ...

The Galaxy Note 7 smartphone debacle might mar Samsung Electronics Co.’s image in the global market, but its impact on Japanese firms and sales is likely to be limited, analysts say. Even if Samsung experiences a drop in global sales from the fire-prone smartphones, ...

More and more self-driving vehicles are making their debut, raising the question of who should be held accountable if, or perhaps when, they cause accidents. Following American and German automakers Tesla Motors Inc. and Mercedes-Benz, Nissan Motor Co. released a minivan model with self-driving ...

Nissan Motor Co Ltd said on Wednesday it will stop production in May of the Mexican-built Tsuru, an economical and hardy sedan beloved by taxi drivers but often sold without airbags and widely criticized for its poor crash record. In production since the early ...

Canon Inc. on Wednesday revised downward its full-year group earnings forecast for this year, citing the persistent higher yen and sluggish sales in emerging economies. In the year ending Dec. 31, the maker of printers, photocopiers and cameras expects a group net profit of ...

Japan’s Lotte Holdings Co. decided at a board meeting Wednesday to let Akio Shigemitsu continue serving as the firm’s vice chairman. The decision followed a news conference in Seoul on Tuesday in which Shigemitsu expressed his intention to remain chairman of South Korean conglomerate ...